Born [date unknown] in England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Richard Beard
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Richard Beard Jr.
Died before
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Apr 2013
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Biography
Dorothy and her husband, who came to America from Exeter, Devonshire, England, settled on Nantucket Island about 1710.
Sources
- Lindenberger, Ruth, Beard Family History and Genealogy (Lawrence, Kan.: Printed by the World Co., 1988), pp. 16, 19
- Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (record of the 1742 marriage of Richard Beard and Eunice Macy, listing Dorothy, Richard's mother, as deceased)
Acknowledgments
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dorothy by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dorothy:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dorothy by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dorothy:
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~0.39%
Harold Blackledge
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~0.39%
James Beard :
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Rejected matches › Dorothy (Barrett) Draper (1726-1814)
Dorothy is 7 degrees from Maria Mitchell, 23 degrees from Carl Sagan, 20 degrees from Tycho Brahe, 30 degrees from Nicholaus Copernicus, 23 degrees from Eise Eisinga, 18 degrees from Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 24 degrees from Thomas Maclear, 12 degrees from Simon Newcomb, 17 degrees from Isaac Newton, 25 degrees from Pierre Henri Puiseux, 21 degrees from Beatrice Tinsley and 16 degrees from Edith Woodward on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.